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First sun rays are awaking Lake Heiterwang from its torpor. The start of something new ... .

 

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"Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true."

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The waves today were probably around 8-10 feet high. Not kidding. It was incredible to watch and great for relaxation. An empty beach with a stunning sunrise. Just how I like it.

 

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Mondays are always more tiring than other days... so desperate need to stay awake .. !!

Another angle of the beautiful twin pagodas. Not sure why one had the lights on and the other one off, maybe the right one felt a bit tired and decided to call it a night first 😂

Best time to visit that park? Well, at night! Depending on how scorching the sun is during the day, you might get barbecued! 🍖 I don't enjoy feeling like I'm being grilled so night is the best option in my opinion!

Iris in bloom. My first sight of the signs of spring.

How fickle my heart and how woozy my eyes.

With only one morning in Glacier National Park, I decided to play it safe and choose Lake McDonald for the one place that I could shoot the sunrise from. Although there may be more beautiful places inside of Glacier, I wouldn't trade my morning on the lake with the beavers and the ospreys for a shot at any other location.

 

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I open my eyes. The view is clear. A familiar site. I look at my hands. My jacket. Awesome jacket. So glad I bought it. Purchase of the year. I look at my pants. Shoes. Everything is in place. I look around. The day is ending and my city never looked so beautiful before. I close my eyes, take a deep breath, hold it for a moment and exhale. I open them again. I'm still here. Here… Why am I here? I don't remember getting here. How did I get here? And why everything moves so fast? And where is everybody?

 

Anybody?

 

Artcore © Tales of The Future: Awake

 

(I will be amusing myself with slightly different shots. No bokeh for you! :p)

This one turned out a bit creepier than what I expected :) Another piece that will be shown at the Alcove, in Atlanta on May 8th.

 

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8" x 10", Acrylic on Panel.

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Tom Otterness (b. 1952 in Wichita, Kansas) is an American sculptor whose works adorn parks in New York---

  

most notably in Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City and in the 14th Street/8th Avenue subway station---and other cities around the world. His style is very cartoonish and cheerful, and the forms of his sculptures often consist of many blobs and pipes, giving them a humorous look. These sculptures depict, among other things, huge pennies, pudgy characters in business suits with moneybag heads, helmeted workers holding giant tools, and crocodiles crawling out from under sewer covers. The main theme of his work seems to be the struggle of the little man against the Capitalist machine in a difficult and strange city.

 

As primarily a public artist, Otterness' has shown popular exhibitions in locations across the United States, including New York City, Indianapolis, and Beverly Hills. His studio is located in the DUMBO neighborhood in Brooklyn.

 

His most recent exhibition of public sculpture in Grand Rapids, Michigan is his largest to date, featuring more than 40 works across two miles of the city's downtown area and at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park.

 

Otterness is best known to New Yorkers for his "Life Underground" series of sculptures, which are primarily located in the 14th St/8th Avenue subway station, which was commissioned in 2000 and fully installed by 2002.

 

Journalist Gary Indiana criticized Otterness for an independent work done while part of the East Village art scene in the mid-eighties called "Shot Dog Piece", in which Otterness allegedly "adopted a dog and then shot it to death for the fun of recording his infantile, sadistic depravity on film." When student Matthew Goad, a candidate for student government president at Wichita State University, learned of this act, Wichita State began questioning a USD$450,000 commission, which would cost an additional USD$150,000 for shipping, however, at present it looks as if the project continued may as planned. Otterness commented that "In 1977, I was a young artist having a very rough time. I had anger at myself and at the world. What I did was symbolic of how I was feeling internally and it is something I would never do today.

 

1952 Born in Wichita, Kansas

1970 Art Students League, New York

1973 Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1977 Member of Collaborative Projects, Inc., New York

 

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS (Post 1984)

2004 Untitled, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, The Netherlands Tornado of Ideas, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

2003 The Return of the Four-Leggeds, Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Washington State Arts Commission, Spokane, WA; to be installed in 2003

2002 Life Underground, Metropolitan Transit Authority and Arts for Transit, 14th Street and 8th Avenue, New York, NY; to be installed 2002

2002 Untitled, Branchbrook Park Station, New Jersey Transit, Newark, NJ

2001 Suspended Mind, Carl Sagan Discovery Center, Montefiore Children's Hospital, Bronx, NY

2000 Time and Money, Hilton Hotel at Times Square, Forest City Ratner Corporation, NYC

1999 Rockman, Federal Courthouse, General Services Administration, Minneapolis, MN

Kohn Pedersen Fox (Architect), Martha Schwartz (Landscape Architect)

 

Feats of Strength, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA

 

The Music Lesson, Music School, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC

Calloway Johnson Moore & West (Architect)

 

Gold Rush, Federal Courthouse, General Services Administration, Sacramento, CA

Nacht & Lewis/Hansen Lind Meyer (Architects)

1998 The Gates, Cleveland Public Library, in collaboration with Maya Lin (Artist) and Tan Lin (Poet) Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates (Architect)

1997 Visionary, Metro Tech Center, Brooklyn, NY Law of Nature, The Mark O. Hatfield US Courthouse, General Services Administration, Portland, OR Kohn Pedersen Fox (Architect)

1996 The Marriage of Real Estate and Money, Roosevelt Island, NY

1995 Dreamers Awake, Wichita Art Museum, Kansas Untitled, Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, California

 

My reluctant model trying to stay awake on the job!

Awake my dear.

Be kind to your spleeping heart.

Take it out into the vast fields of light and let it breathe.

perfect spring day

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Highest position: 495 on Saturday, September 24, 2011

 

Wow after going to the zoo year after year I finally found an awake and alert Koala.

 

I don't know how many times I went to find them sleeping behind glass under their heat lamp. After years I was starting to wonder if they really just stuck some stuffed animals in the window and this was all a joke on us.

I really like playing with lights and shadows!

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